% change on a year earlier - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Supporting data for Inflation Rate (CPI). It adds detail to that headline metric and is not counted in the national scores.
Australia's cost of living by household type was 3.9% as of April 2026. How fast the cost of living is rising for five kinds of household: employees, age pensioners, pensioner and beneficiary households, other government transfer recipients and self-funded retirees. The headline line is the all-groups consumer price index, for comparison. Households spend their money differently, so the same price rises are not felt equally. The Selected Living Cost Indexes weight prices by what each type of household actually buys, so they show who is being hit hardest. Data is sourced from ABS Selected Living Cost Indexes (Cat. 6467.0), annual % change, all groups; the headline line is the all-groups CPI (Cat. 6401.0), derived from the quarterly index. and updated quarterly.
How fast the cost of living is rising for five kinds of household: employees, age pensioners, pensioner and beneficiary households, other government transfer recipients and self-funded retirees. The headline line is the all-groups consumer price index, for comparison.
Households spend their money differently, so the same price rises are not felt equally. The Selected Living Cost Indexes weight prices by what each type of household actually buys, so they show who is being hit hardest.
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Source: ABS Selected Living Cost Indexes (Cat. 6467.0), annual % change, all groups; the headline line is the all-groups CPI (Cat. 6401.0), derived from the quarterly index.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Selected Living Cost Indexes (Cat. 6467.0), annual % change, all groups; the headline line is the all-groups CPI (Cat. 6401.0), derived from the quarterly index.), updated quarterly. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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